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TIL that conductors of Stanford prison experiment and Milgram experiment knew each other personally. Philip Zimbardo and Stanley Milgram were classmates in their senior year at James Monroe High School.

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lodnN TIL the Latin phrase "annus horribilis" is used by world leaders to call the worst year in living memory. For Queen Elizabeth, it was 1992, the year when Windsor Castle caught fire and Princess Diana and Prince Charles' marital problems became increasingly public
p8ar4 TIL In Africa and Asia, Panthers are black Leopards, whereas in the Americas, they are black Jaguars. Accordingly, Panthers are not actually a separate (or single) species at all, but melanistic variations of different big cats.
oRvrr TIL that there is a vast illegal black market for blood in India. Selling blood and paying donors in India is illegal, but across the country, a vast "red market" proliferates. People are even kept prisoner in 'Blood Farms' and harvested for their blood.
OoX77 TIL that the male of a tiny Australian marsupial species called the antechinus goes into a mating frenzy once in its short life and has sex with as many females as possible until its body disintegrates.
p8xwQ TIL Disney Epcot regularly grows lemons the size of milk jugs